Rejected by the Campus Belle, I Find My True Love-Chapter 352 - 350 As If She Were Right by My Side

Lin Xi also wanted to type faster, but she was used to writing in 4,000-character chunks. Besides, with the college entrance exams, she had been doing nothing but studying day in and day out. Now that she was picking up her phone to write again, her hands felt rusty.

"So when will you be able to get your speed back up?"

Lin Xi pondered for a moment. "I’m not sure, but I’ll do my best."

"Hey, forget ’doing your best.’ I’ll go over what you’ve written so far with you, and you can just post an extra Chapter tomorrow."

With that, Si Wen began to discuss the previous plot points, leaving Lin Xi completely astonished. She herself had forgotten what she had written and was surprised that Si Wen remembered it so clearly.

On the first night of her vacation, although she couldn’t be with Xue Yang, having Si Wen’s company made her feel less lonely.

"Si Wen, thank you."

"Hah, don’t mention it. What are best friends for? But it looks like we can’t go see the villa for now. We’ll have to wait until the exam results are out."

"That’s okay. We still have a place to live, so it’s no big deal if we look for one later."

After hanging up, Lin Xi lay in bed, unable to fall asleep. Her beautiful eyes blinked and blinked, and she could almost see Xue Yang smiling at her.

Maybe I should message Xue Yang to see if he’s asleep?

She acted on the thought immediately, opening WeChat and typing a message to Xue Yang:

"Xue Yang~ are you asleep?"

After dropping Lin Xi off, Xue Yang had gone back to the school security office to pick up the local specialties that his mother, Zhong Hailan, had sent... or rather, had sent for Lin Xi. The large box was heavy, and it wasn’t hard for him to imagine his mom had rummaged through the entire house again, sending everything she possibly could.

He loaded the box into the trunk and stepped on the gas, heading home. After carrying it inside, he received a detailed list of instructions for the specialties from Zhong Hailan. They were so detailed, she might as well have come over to prepare them herself. His excellent cooking skills were, without a doubt, all thanks to his mother.

Xue Yang put the refrigerated items in the fridge and neatly arranged the others in the kitchen. The delivery included not just food but practical items as well—everything one could possibly need. There were even things Xue Yang had been planning to buy, saving him a trip.

Once everything was put away, he sent a message back to Zhong Hailan: "Love you."

Upon receiving the message, she replied unceremoniously, "Scram!"

The friendly banter between mother and son came to a close.

Next, Xue Yang used the local specialties his mother had sent to cook himself a sumptuous dinner. Even though Lin Xi wasn’t there, it was the first day after her high school graduation, and he wanted to celebrate for her from afar.

After dinner and a short rest, he put Lin Xi’s things away in the walk-in closet, grabbed his own clothes, and went into the bathroom. Soon, the sound of running water could be heard from within. Throughout all this, Xue Yang was quiet and methodical, but anyone who knew him well would have sensed that something was a little off.

The splashing from the bathroom went on for a while. At some point, the screen of the phone on the bed lit up briefly, but it had already gone dark by the time Xue Yang came out drying his hair.

Xue Yang sat down on the edge of the bed, casually picked up his phone, and saw the message from Lin Xi. His expression softened instantly, and instead of typing a reply, he started a video call.

After waiting a bit with no reply, Lin Xi figured he had fallen asleep. It’s already midnight, so he must be asleep. Right. I’d better not disturb him.

Just as Lin Xi picked up her phone to continue writing, a video call from Xue Yang came through.

She immediately sat up and pressed the answer button, and Xue Yang’s gentle face appeared on the screen.

"What were you just doing?" Xue Yang asked, towel-drying his hair.

"I was on the phone with Si Wen, discussing the novel. You just got out of the shower, huh."

The freshly showered Xue Yang looked slightly different. If he was normally a handsome young man, after a shower he seemed more like a comfortable, domestic man who had shed all his burdens. Girls usually couldn’t resist this type of man, and Lin Xi was no exception. She especially wished she were by his side right now, wanting to help him dry his hair.

Xue Yang’s pleasant voice came through the phone. "I saw that you updated."

"Did you read it?"

"I hadn’t had a chance before your message came through."

"You didn’t read it the second it was posted," Lin Xi pouted deliberately.

Xue Yang put down the towel and casually grabbed something from beside him, but he unexpectedly picked up the apricot-colored lace bra that he had collected from Lin Xi’s dormitory earlier that day.

"..."

"!!!"

A stunned silence fell between them as a strange tension crackled across the video call.

Xue Yang was the first to recover. "I must have forgotten to put this in the closet," he explained. "I’ll put it away now."

He truly hadn’t meant to leave it out. He prayed Lin Xi didn’t get the wrong idea. The last thing he wanted was for her to think he was a pervert. And yet, he had to admit, its scent was so pleasant it was as if Lin Xi were right there beside him.

"You don’t have to put it in the closet," Lin Xi’s voice, barely a murmur, reached him.

"What did you say?"

"I said, you don’t have to put it in the closet. That way, it’ll be like I’m there with you."

Xue Yang was slightly stunned. This girl... could she possibly know what I’m thinking?

He held the bra in one hand and his phone in the other. From Lin Xi’s perspective, he looked as though he was treasuring a precious gem as he tucked the bra against his chest. The feeling was strange, as if Xue Yang wasn’t holding a bra, but her.

Is it a little perverted of me to think that?!

"I remember someone said she would model all of her lingerie for me."

"Not right now."

"Why not?"

"I want to do it for you in person."

Lin Xi was a very private person. To her, a phone wasn’t completely secure. She only trusted being face-to-face in a truly private space. With high-tech gadgets, she worried that things might get leaked...

"Okay." He had waited this long; what were a few more days?

Xue Yang gazed at Lin Xi. After returning home and soaking in the hot spring for two hours, her skin seemed to have a pearlescent glow. She was wearing a pink silk nightgown, and because she was in her own room, she wasn’t wearing a bra.

Without anything to restrain them, the beautiful curves of her chest were on full display...